Photo courtesy of AP. Michelle Obama on 60 Minutes. Will this look make the yet to be named Michelle Obama style guide?
Excuse me if I sound mushy. But this is still new. Americans are used to more formality on the part of first couples such as what we've seen with Pres. Bush and his wife.
The Obamas represent a welcome change as an openly affectionate and romantic couple for many Americans. Some experts say that the soon-to-be first couple embody the ideal healthy relationship, and that they can stir up love around the country. The New York Daily News even predicted a baby boom attributed to election night friskiness inspired by the Obamas. (the Today Show's website.)
Seeing the Obamas relate to each other and to their beautiful daughters is probably renewing the hope of single people everywhere who may have given up on finding The One and having a family. They are a real-life example that long-term relationships can work, even in spite of the high divorce rate and increases in numbers of couples who choose to cohabitate.
For African Americans, this is even more significant given the fact that roughly 70 percent of all black babies are born out of wedlock. Maybe having the Obamas as Americas first couple, will help usher in a new era of fidelity. Or if nothing else, it can serve as a model of what a healthy, egalitarian relationship can look like.
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Barack walks on water, you know. After all, he IS the Messiah. Yet for some strange reason, Jesse Jackson wants to castrate him. You can't make this stuff up.
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I picked up a "woman" on 13th & Locust last Saturday who looked just like Michelle!
I hate when people do this, you know NOTHING about the Obama family life. Didn't the Clintons look great from afar, and the Kennedys? Just hope he's a good president, and that's it.
The only thing that "Nickpa 1" ever picked up at 13Th.& Locust was a busted hemorrhoid.
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Jenice Armstrong: Do you ever wonder what it is that keeps some couples together when so many relationships collapse? For some local couples, a shared passion for dancing helps bring joy to the relationship.
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Jenice Armstrong: Elizabeth and John Edwards, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren: There are things you can learn about life by watching the foibles of the rich and famous.
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Jenice Armstrong: The term "lady" has been getting people into hot water lately. The latest stumble was by Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. during a recent appearance on Stephen Colbert's show.
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Armstrong: MSNBC's Chris Matthews may have briefly forgotten that President Obama is black, but a wise guy at Urban Outfitters didn't. Meanwhile, Cosmo declares the thong is dead!
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SINCE I'm assigned to the girlfriend beat and spend a good portion of my days deciphering male-female angst, the latest self-help books routinely make their way to my mailbox.
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Hey Jen!: A high-profile black athlete with a white girlfriend? No big thing, right? Unless the athlete happens to be on the cover of Essence magazine and that particular issue is supposed to be all about "black men, love and relationships."
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CHEATING HUSBANDS better take note. The days of a woman's accepting a scarlet letter and slinking away in shame from her married lover are over.
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Jenice Armstrong: A fight may be brewing in the home of Eagles free agent Max Jean-Gilles. His wife, Maggie Jean-Gilles, has been trying to book a flight to Haiti so that she can help with earthquake relief efforts there, but Max is worried about her safety.
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A NEW STUDY out Monday reveals something most of us suspected anyway: It's a helluva lot harder than ever to be a young adult. It's to the point that five times as many high school and college students deal with mental-health issues than young people did during the Great Depression.
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CAN WE BE honest? The sad truth is that President Obama's relatively light skin color helped him win over certain voters during his presidential campaign.
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